03:12 <midfavila> you know, i have to wonder what people are gonna do when rms dies

03:12 <midfavila> obviously there's some bias on my part because he's a prominent figure but i feel like he's one of the few people who are still

03:12 <midfavila> like

03:12 <midfavila> actively fighting for the ideals of free software in the public limelight

03:13 <midfavila> sure there's a loose federation of nerds on irc and matrix and shit who'll keep it up but how effective will that be versus microsoft, ibm, etc?

04:31 <midfavila> the r01 has just finished compiling perl

04:31 <midfavila> it took

04:31 <midfavila> approximately 3.5 hours

04:32 <midfavila> how long do you guys think it's gonna take to build gcc on the r01? :^)

04:37 <sewn> what is a e01

04:37 <midfavila> the risc-v SoM i'm porting kiss to

04:38 <midfavila> very... very... *very* slowly

04:39 <midfavila> it's from clockwork pi

04:39 <midfavila> i've got one in a uconsole

04:40 <midfavila> little handheld computer. looks like a cross between an overgrown TI-84 and a gameboy

04:40 <midfavila> https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole

04:40 <midfavila> super great little device. i'm replacing my android with it once i have an image up

04:41 <midfavila> i've already figured out how to place phone calls and SMSes, set up a WWAN connection, and bridge that connection to AP-mode WLAN on board the SoM for a hotspot mode

04:41 <midfavila> combine that with finch for discord/tg/irc/xmpp/matrix/whatever else you use for IM and that's probably most of what the average techie uses their phone for

04:42 <midfavila> i need to write some software to implement a sqlite backend for SMSes though. and a menu-driven interface. the keyboard is serviceable but it's not ideal so i'd like to minimize its use in regular operation

04:42 <midfavila> needs like 100gf to actuate

04:43 <midfavila> i'll also probably be porting tinyx to risc-v. i doubt it'll be hard. last time i ported it to an unsupported architecture it was just a matter of defining a few variables

04:47 <midfavila> although most of what you might need to do on a regular basis can be done pretty easily on the r01 from the tty. fbv for image viewing, fbpdf for pdfs, fbterm for a decent experience with AA'd fonts, etc

04:47 <midfavila> links or lynx for browsing

04:48 <midfavila> i've been trying to figure out a good way to get multimedia working. mplayer works but it's slow as shit because mplayer. mpv doesn't have an fbdev backend because sdl2. ffmpeg works in theory but in practice the vendor image is like 3 major releases behind so it lacks some commands that would be important

04:48 <midfavila> for audio though it works great

07:04 <fultilt> Ooh, that TRS-80 Model 100 form factor looks fun.

14:59 <riteo> oh wow that device looks gorgeous